son commented, "I expect and am willing to be persecuted, imprisoned, and bound for advocating African rights. And I should deserve to be a slave myself if I shrunk from that duty or danger" (Archer 42).
Garrison, a man who desperately wanted to end slavery would not stop at anything to achieve the total abolition of slavery. Jules Archer commented on Garrison's feelings about The American Colonization Society, an association run by whites in the Southern Colonies where slavery was fully tolerated. Garrison is portrayed as a character inflamed with anger and detestation of the pro-slavery whites who had begun to justify permanent enslavement by declaring that Africans were biologically inferior to Europeans. Whites claimed that anything accomplished by people with black skin was inferior, that blacks were intellectually and morally incapable of self-government, and that blacks needed to be controlled by whites. Garrison filled with hateful passion wanted to expose the society for committing fraud on the grounds that they were attempting to persuade Americans into believing that Negroes were inferior sub humans and only had the right to exist as slaves (47). Garrison had been triumphant in informing some Northerners of the evils and tribulations of the society, but was largely ineffective in
Garrison's next mission included publishing The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper, along with Isaac Knapp. The first edition of The Liberator was released on January 1, 1831, and 400 copies were printed (Everett 42). The paper had a rather plain and simple motto which Garrison himself had created, "Our Country is the world - Our Countryman are mankind" (Archer 43). This paper had begun infiltrating the Northern Colonies and when the anti-slavery movement was rejected Garrison justly commented, "The clankings of the prisoners' chains strike upon her ear, but they cannot penetrate her heart" (Ar...